Introduction The purpose of this backup process arose from a moment when I broke my phone. My phone was my lone source of MFA/2FA codes via the authenticator app, and I genuinely felt terror tha...
Email is often a critical component notification for jobs and other things in linux. This is how I set up Postfix on most of my instances. This guide is geared towards Debian based distros but can ...
Recently picked up a very low power Dell Wyse 3040 to use as a headless docker host. It is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom Z8350 so not a lot of horsepower. It runs like a x64 Raspberry Pi. Insta...
When I first log into a linux instance I’ve set up, I often look to find the ethernet adapter details. To make this easier, I like to add the IP address to the TTY login screen. This is a nice thin...
In a effort to keep all my devices backed up, I have been looking into a way to backup my Raspberry Pi devices. Approach My criteria for success, in order, has been: Accurate Testable Eas...
Very frequently I need to mount SMB2 or SMB3 shares inside of my linux devices. To do so I usually use fstab. Dependencies You will need to install Samba and CIFS utilities sudo apt update sudo ...
Having a local git repo configured, I haven’t yet set up ssh authentication. Instead I use HTTPS with a username and password. It can be tiresome typing in the login credentials over and over, so I...
Having only two nodes in my Proxmox cluster, I wanted to add a third external device to keep quorum during reboots or other outages. To do so I added an external qdevice as a node which works as a ...
This is a quick setup for both the Uctronics display code, and the startup service. I will also give an example using rc.local. Preparing the Pi You will need to activate I2C on your raspberry ...
This is a quick reminder for the code that needs to be added to the Home Assistant configuration YAML to get things working with a reverse proxy. In the terminal, edit the configuration YAML na...